That's unfortunately not an option because all requests would have to go through that single threaded bottleneck to get to the parallelized C code, which is only acceptable for long running operations. For a request/response type of scenario like Cassandra, Lucene or the kind of analytics systems I'm working on it would make the whole parallelization pointless.
The realistic option is to use a separate C based process behind the usual multi-process mod_python setup. That works but is more complicated and error prone than an in-process solution. So I think that's why so many new projects that have these kinds of scenarios (NoSQL for instance) go with Java in spite of its flaws.
The realistic option is to use a separate C based process behind the usual multi-process mod_python setup. That works but is more complicated and error prone than an in-process solution. So I think that's why so many new projects that have these kinds of scenarios (NoSQL for instance) go with Java in spite of its flaws.